pudency
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pudency
1605–15; < Late Latin pudentia shame, equivalent to Latin pudent- (stem of pudēns, present participle of pudēre to be ashamed) + -ia -y 3; see -ency
Example Sentences
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Why did I not ask? you will say.—You don't remember the rosy pudency of sensitive children.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various
The art of life has a pudency, and will not be exposed.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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